Re: [GIT PULL?] Create and populate toplevel tests/ for kernel tests

2008-02-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Sam Ravnborg wrote: Hi Linus. Will you consider such a primary code-movement for -rc1 or shall we wait until next merge window? Had we hit -rc2 I would not have sent this pull req and feel free to flame me anyway. The rationale to get it merged is obviously to avoid merge conflicts and the

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:06:17PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: There is maybe a middle ground in this -next idea; as very first part of the series, the new api gets added, current users converted and api marked __deprecated. Then there's a second part to the patch, which is a separate

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-12 Thread Roland Dreier
Chelsio's T3 HW doesn't support this. Not so far I guess but it could be equipped with these features right? I don't know anything about the T3 internals, but it's not clear that you could do this without a new chip design in general. Lot's of RDMA devices were designed expecting that

[RFC v2 PATCH] RTTIME watchdog timer proc interface

2008-02-12 Thread Hiroshi Shimamoto
From: Hiroshi Shimamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Introduce new proc interface for RTTIME watchdog. It makes administrator able to set RTTIME watchdog to existing real-time applications without impact. $ echo 1000 /proc/pid/rttime set RTTIME current value to 1000, it means 10sec. $ echo

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:20:44PM +, Alan Cox wrote: I think the best way to get the serial drivers maintained would be to cat them all onto the end of synclink.c and hope that Paul thinks he did it. Well I've already broken the buffering so he'd fix it ;) We have a pile of old ISA

[GIT PULL?] Create and populate toplevel tests/ for kernel tests

2008-02-12 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Linus. Will you consider such a primary code-movement for -rc1 or shall we wait until next merge window? Had we hit -rc2 I would not have sent this pull req and feel free to flame me anyway. The rationale to get it merged is obviously to avoid merge conflicts and the only reason I ask is

Re: currently active Linux kernel versions

2008-02-12 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Wagner Ferenc wrote: which are the currently active Linux kernel versions at any point in time? The quote is taken from http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/29. Or more precisely: which are the stable versions I can depend on for a more or less critical server, those that have active security

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 11 2008 20:21, Greg KH wrote: I hope to recreate this tree every day automatically. In order to do this, any tree that has a conflict will be dropped from that days tree. Oh oh oh, I get merged first! me me me! No, you can't have a tree like that. [森林 Not yours. 森林] Let's

Re: [PATCH] xfs: convert beX_add to beX_add_cpu (new common API)

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:18:09 +0100 Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch was in Andrew tree, but it was uncomplete. Here is updated version. This is identical to what I already had. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Cox
I think the best way to get the serial drivers maintained would be to cat them all onto the end of synclink.c and hope that Paul thinks he did it. Well I've already broken the buffering so he'd fix it ;) We have a pile of old ISA drivers that are going to break soon with the locking changes

Re: Bug#464962: immediate crash on boot on TM5800

2008-02-12 Thread Joey Hess
H. Peter Anvin wrote: maximilian attems wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:32:27PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: INT 6 is #UD, undefined instruction. If you could send me a copy of your vmlinux file (not bzImage), it would speed things up. cp -l

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:59:00PM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:55:31 -0800 Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:20:44PM +, Alan Cox wrote: I think the best way to get the serial drivers maintained would be to cat them all onto the end

Re: [PATCH 1/1] NBD: make nbd default to deadline I/O scheduler

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:30:40 -0500 Paul Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + old_e = disk-queue-elevator; + if (elevator_init(disk-queue, deadline) == 0 || + elevator_init(disk-queue, noop) == 0) { + elevator_exit(old_e);

[PATCH] reiserfs: le*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-12 Thread marcin . slusarz
From: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] replace all: little_endian_variable = cpu_to_leX(leX_to_cpu(little_endian_variable) + expression_in_cpu_byteorder); with: leX_add_cpu(little_endian_variable, expression_in_cpu_byteorder); generated with

[PATCH] ocfs2: le*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-12 Thread marcin . slusarz
From: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] replace all: little_endian_variable = cpu_to_leX(leX_to_cpu(little_endian_variable) + expression_in_cpu_byteorder); with: leX_add_cpu(little_endian_variable, expression_in_cpu_byteorder); generated with

[PATCH] ntfs: le*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-12 Thread marcin . slusarz
From: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] replace all: little_endian_variable = cpu_to_leX(leX_to_cpu(little_endian_variable) + expression_in_cpu_byteorder); with: leX_add_cpu(little_endian_variable, expression_in_cpu_byteorder); generated with

[PATCH] jfs: le*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-12 Thread marcin . slusarz
From: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] replace all: little_endian_variable = cpu_to_leX(leX_to_cpu(little_endian_variable) + expression_in_cpu_byteorder); with: leX_add_cpu(little_endian_variable, expression_in_cpu_byteorder); generated with

[PATCH] ext2: le*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-12 Thread marcin . slusarz
From: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] replace all: little_endian_variable = cpu_to_leX(leX_to_cpu(little_endian_variable) + expression_in_cpu_byteorder); with: leX_add_cpu(little_endian_variable, expression_in_cpu_byteorder); generated with

[PATCH] hfs/hfsplus: be*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-12 Thread marcin . slusarz
From: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] replace all: big_endian_variable = cpu_to_beX(beX_to_cpu(big_endian_variable) + expression_in_cpu_byteorder); with: beX_add_cpu(big_endian_variable, expression_in_cpu_byteorder); generated with semantic patch

[PATCH] gfs2: be*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-12 Thread marcin . slusarz
From: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] replace all: big_endian_variable = cpu_to_beX(beX_to_cpu(big_endian_variable) + expression_in_cpu_byteorder); with: beX_add_cpu(big_endian_variable, expression_in_cpu_byteorder); generated with semantic patch

Re: [PATCH 2/4] KEYS: Check starting keyring as part of search

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:04:29 + David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check the starting keyring as part of the search to (a) see if that is what we're searching for, and (b) to check it is still valid for searching. The scenario: User in process A does things that cause things to be

[PATCH] gdth: convert to PCI hotplug API

2008-02-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 143 +++- 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-) 06196f50915da97bb897495863f9f084d785c1e4 diff --git a/drivers/scsi/gdth.c b/drivers/scsi/gdth.c index

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:48:13PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:55:45AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Not it isn't. To quote you a number of years ago: Linux is evolution, not intelligent design I think this statement has been used unfortunately as a hard and fast

Re: [PATCH 4/4] KEYS: Add keyctl function to get a security label

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:04:40 + David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + key_ref = lookup_user_key(NULL, keyid, 0, 1, KEY_VIEW); + if (IS_ERR(key_ref)) { + if (PTR_ERR(key_ref) != -EACCES) + return PTR_ERR(key_ref); + + /* viewing a key

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:31:48 -0500 I understand the desire to want a nice and clean history, but the frequency here really has a negative impact on your downstreams. Ok, fair enough. Any alternative suggestions on how to remove turds without them being

Re: [PATCH]intel-iommu batched iotlb flushes

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: mark gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:54:48 -0800 Something could be done: we could enable drivers to have DMA-pools they manage that get mapped and are re-used. I would rather the DMA-pools be tied to PID's that way any bad behavior would be limited to the address

Re: BTRFS partition usage...

2008-02-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 12 2008 15:26, David Miller wrote: (Yes, I had xfs on sparc before, so it's not like you NEED the whitespace at the start of a partition.) You actully do unless you want to lose significant chunks of your disk space. The Sun disk label only allows you to specify the start of a

Re: BTRFS partition usage...

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:04:52 +0100 (CET) I still don't like the idea of btrfs trying to be smarter than a user who can partition up his system according to (a) his likes (b) system or hardware requirements or recommendations to align the

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:48:38 -0800 (PST) On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote: Yes ... I don't do that ... Like I said, I only rebase for an actual conflict. And this is how things should work. And if conflicts happen every day, what

Re: [PATCH - BUGFIX] Smack: Check for 'struct socket' with NULL sk

2008-02-12 Thread Casey Schaufler
--- Ahmed S. Darwish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:26:02PM +0100, Joerg Platte wrote: Hi, when booting linux 2.6.25-rc1 I get the following error: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0138 IP: [c01aa59e] smack_netlabel+0x13/0xc8 *pde

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:15:53 -0800 On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:53AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: We absolutely MUST NOT have the mindset that cross-subsystem conflicts happen all the time. They usually don't, by virtue of our current development

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:48:41AM +, Al Viro wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:16:50PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: Ahem... Use of git-cherry-pick preserves commit information just fine. Not by default, at least (note they said commiters, not authors): That's why you give it -r.

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, David Miller wrote: From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:59:00 -0800 (PST) That sure as hell would put the pain on API changes solidly where it belongs. If a person does a driver API change and does all the work to sweep the entire

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:16:50PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: Ahem... Use of git-cherry-pick preserves commit information just fine. Not by default, at least (note they said commiters, not authors): That's why you give it -r. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: BTRFS partition usage...

2008-02-12 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:28:26PM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:00:20 +0100 (CET) Something looks wrong here. Why would btrfs need to zero at all? So that existing superblocks on the partition won't be interpreted as correct

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:59:00 -0800 (PST) That sure as hell would put the pain on API changes solidly where it belongs. If a person does a driver API change and does all the work to sweep the entire tree updating all the drivers, doesn't it penalize

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:26:53 -0800 (PST) We absolutely MUST NOT have the mindset that cross-subsystem conflicts happen all the time. Perhaps not, but self-conflicts are the bigger issue for the networking. If I (or Jeff or John) push a bug fix to

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-12 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 11:56 -0800, David Rientjes wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: @@ -218,21 +167,27 @@ static struct mempolicy *mpol_new(enum mempolicy_mode mode, return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); flags = MPOL_MODE_FLAGS;

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:58:53PM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:36:24 -0500 Rebasing is low impact only if you don't have git downstream people. Otherwise, you're just treating it as a useful quilt clone, really. Understood.

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-12 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 07:30 -0800, David Rientjes wrote: Add an optional mempolicy mode flag, MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES, that suppresses the node remap when the policy is rebound. Adds another member to struct mempolicy, nodemask_t user_nodemask that stores the the nodemask that the

Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2.6.25] RDMA/cxgb3: Fail loopback connections.

2008-02-12 Thread Roland Dreier
applied, although: +static void is_loopback_dst(struct iw_cm_id *cm_id) +{ +struct net_device *dev; + +dev = ip_dev_find(init_net, cm_id-remote_addr.sin_addr.s_addr); +if (!dev) +return 0; +dev_put(dev); +return 1; +} is there any way this

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:24:42 -0600 Hm ... I think net is a counter example to this. Rebases certainly work for them. The issue, I thought, was around the policy of rebasing and how often. I see the question as being one of who creates the

Re: [patch 2/4] mempolicy: support optional mode flags

2008-02-12 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: What is the benefit of pulling the flags and mode apart at the user interface, passing them as separate args to mpol_new(), do_* and mpol_shared_policy_init() and then stitching them back together in mpol_new()? Modes passed in via

Re: git-x86 mm branch compile error

2008-02-12 Thread Kevin Winchester
Kevin Winchester wrote: CC arch/x86/mm/pageattr.o arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c: In function ‘change_page_attr_set_clr’: arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c:778: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of ‘cpa_check_alias’ make[1]: *** [arch/x86/mm/pageattr.o] Error 1 make: *** [arch/x86/mm] Error 2

Re: [REGRESSION]fan turns at highspeed after suspend2ram

2008-02-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 13 of February 2008, Mirco Tischler wrote: On Mi, 2008-02-13 at 00:23 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Ah, ok. Thanks for testing. :-) Can you please check if the current mainline with the following patch applied works on your box? Thanks, Rafael ---

Re: 2.6.24-sha1: RIP [ffffffff802596c8] iov_iter_advance+0x38/0x70

2008-02-12 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 09:27, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:04:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:00:31 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This happened during LTP. FWIW, modprobe/rmmod trivial empty module together with cat

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc1-git2: GDT SCSI: change drivers/scsi/gdth.c into using pci_get device

2008-02-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 20:48 -0300, Sergio Luis wrote: reposting an updated version of it. Please check if it's ok. Looks fine, thanks! You added an extra space at the end of while ((pdev = pci_get_device(vendor, device, pdev)) Which I fixed. Unfortunately checkpatch isn't very helpful for

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:54:01PM +, Al Viro wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:51:07PM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:31:48 -0500 I understand the desire to want a nice and clean history, but the frequency here really

asm-x86/sigcontext.h changes break userland

2008-02-12 Thread Jakub Jelinek
Hi! The x86: use generic register names in struct sigcontext http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=742fa54a62be6a263df14a553bf832724471dfbe changeset breaks userland, e.g. it is not possible to compile gcc anymore (both 32-bit and 64-bit libgcc), and I

git-x86 mm branch compile error

2008-02-12 Thread Kevin Winchester
CC arch/x86/mm/pageattr.o arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c: In function ‘change_page_attr_set_clr’: arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c:778: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of ‘cpa_check_alias’ make[1]: *** [arch/x86/mm/pageattr.o] Error 1 make: *** [arch/x86/mm] Error 2 at tip

Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum

2008-02-12 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 07:30 -0800, David Rientjes wrote: The mempolicy mode constants, MPOL_DEFAULT, MPOL_PREFERRED, MPOL_BIND, and MPOL_INTERLEAVE, are better declared as part of an enum for type checking. The policy member of struct mempolicy is also converted from type short to type

Re: [REGRESSION]fan turns at highspeed after suspend2ram

2008-02-12 Thread Mirco Tischler
On Mi, 2008-02-13 at 00:23 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Ah, ok. Thanks for testing. :-) Can you please check if the current mainline with the following patch applied works on your box? Thanks, Rafael --- drivers/acpi/hardware/hwsleep.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression

2008-02-12 Thread Jody Belka
Hi all, I thought I'd try out 2.6.25-rc1 as a xen 32-bit pae domU the other day. Unfortunately, I didn't get very far very fast, as the domain just crashed immediately upon booting, without any direct feedback (I did have messages on the xen message buffer, which helped). This even with

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:51:07PM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:31:48 -0500 I understand the desire to want a nice and clean history, but the frequency here really has a negative impact on your downstreams. Ok, fair enough.

Re: E1000 (PCI-E) doesn't work on nforce430, MSI issue.

2008-02-12 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Kok, Auke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't work by default. pci=nomsi fixes the problem. actually does not fix anything - it just works around it by falling back to legacy interrupts. Actually it does, fixes the problem by working around a bug :-) Thanks for info. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To

Re: [PATCH] ACPI suspend: Execute _WAK with the right argument

2008-02-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 13 of February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: On Wed 2008-02-13 00:32:16, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] The _WAK global ACPI control method has to be called with the argument representing the sleep state being exited. Make it happen.

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:16:03 -0800 (PST) David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:37:42 -0800 Well there's a case in point. rcupdate.h is not a part of networking, and it is random tree-wandering like this which causes me

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-12 Thread Steve Wise
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:01:17PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Well, certainly today the memfree IB devices store the page tables in host memory so they are already designed to hang onto packets during the page lookup over

[PATCH BUGFIX 25-rc1] Smack: Don't fail against Nulled sk sockets

2008-02-12 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
Hi!, Appropriately handle sockets with sk = NULL. This is usually the socket case when starting kernel nfsd. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tested-by: Joerg Platte [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c

Re: BTRFS partition usage...

2008-02-12 Thread Bryan Henderson
The Sun disk label only allows you to specify the start of a partition in cylinders, so if you want to use a filesystem like XFS you have to start the partition on cylinder 1 which can be many blocks into the disk. That entire first cylinder is completely wasted. I don't believe a cylinder

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:59:23PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Al Viro wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:16:50PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: Ahem... Use of git-cherry-pick preserves commit information just fine. Not by default, at least (note they said

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:02:08 +1100 Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi all, Andrew was looking for someone to run a linux-next tree that just contained the subsystem git and quilt trees for 2.6.x+1 and I (in a moment of madness) volunteered. So, this is to announce the creating of such a tree (it

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:44:47 -0800 (PST) gitk --merge ... This is something where I actually think git could and should do better: git has the capability to act as more of a quilt replacement, but because it wasn't part of the original

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:37:42 -0800 Well there's a case in point. rcupdate.h is not a part of networking, and it is random tree-wandering like this which causes me problems and which will cause Stephen problems. Now, I don't know which tree owns

Re: BTRFS partition usage...

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:42:56 +0100 (CET) On Feb 12 2008 15:38, David Miller wrote: I still don't like the idea of btrfs trying to be smarter than a user who can partition up his system according to (a) his likes (b) system or hardware

Re: Kernel BUG at fs/mpage.c:489

2008-02-12 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 08:50, Alan Cox wrote: Feb 12 19:55:08 butterfly kernel: hde: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy } Feb 12 19:55:08 butterfly kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Your drive stopped responding. Feb 12 19:55:08 butterfly kernel: hde: DMA disabled Feb 12

[PATCH 3/4] fib_trie: print statistics for multiple tables

2008-02-12 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Make /proc/net/fib_trie and /proc/net/fib_triestat handle multiple (alternate) route tables. Need hliist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu as well. Notes: * this usage of seq_file doesn't need/want SEQ_START_TOKEN * add hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu since it needs it Signed-off-by: Stephen

[PATCH 0/4] fib_trie related patches for 2.6.25

2008-02-12 Thread Stephen Hemminger
More trie cleanups with some RCU related changes as well. Patches are against net-2.6 tree (sent already to netdev). -- Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

[PATCH 4/4] hlist_for_each_entry_continue simplification

2008-02-12 Thread Stephen Hemminger
All the users of hlist_for_each_entry_continue had to intialize pos before use; change API so pos is a pure temporary variable which matches the usage of other _for_each_entry routines. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/include/linux/list.h 2008-02-12

[PATCH 2/4] fib_trie: improve output format for /proc/net/fib_trie

2008-02-12 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Make output format prettier (more tree like). local: --- 0.0.0.0/0 |--- 10.111.111.0/24 | +-- 10.111.111.0/32 link broadcast | |--- 10.111.111.254/31 | | +-- 10.111.111.254/32 host local | | +-- 10.111.111.255/32 link broadcast |--- 127.0.0.0/8 |

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Al Viro wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:16:50PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: Ahem... Use of git-cherry-pick preserves commit information just fine. Not by default, at least (note they said commiters, not authors): That's why you give it -r. Hmm. -r is a

RE: [PATCH 3/4] ACPI: Check for any matching CID when walking namespace.

2008-02-12 Thread Moore, Robert
Ok, I've rolled this in: /* Walk the CID list */ found = FALSE; for (i = 0; i cid-count; i++) { if (ACPI_STRNCMP (cid-id[i].value, info-hid,

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:36:24 -0500 Rebasing is low impact only if you don't have git downstream people. Otherwise, you're just treating it as a useful quilt clone, really. Understood. One of the key operations that I'm interested in is removing things

Re: [PATCH 2/4] acpi: change cpufreq tables to per_cpu variables

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:37:40 -0800 Mike Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Change cpufreq tables from arrays to per_cpu variables in drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c Based on linux-2.6.git + x86.git I fixed a bunch of rejects in [PATCH 1/4] cpufreq: change cpu freq tables to per_cpu variables

Re: BTRFS partition usage...

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:21:52 +0100 (CET) For sparc you could have something like startlbaendlba type sda10 2 1 Boot sda22 58 3 Whole disk

[PATCH] ACPI suspend: Execute _WAK with the right argument

2008-02-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] The _WAK global ACPI control method has to be called with the argument representing the sleep state being exited. Make it happen. Special thanks to Mirco Tischler [EMAIL PROTECTED] for reporting the problem and debugging. Reported-by: Mirco Tischler

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:41:19 -0800 (PST) Trust me, you don't know how good you have it. I know, preserving history is valuable. I'll take up the various suggestions and try working a little differently this time around. We'll see how well it works. --

Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum

2008-02-12 Thread Paul Jackson
David wrote: That doesn't logically follow because the aggregate of the mode and the optional flags _are_ the policy itself. I give up ... I still don't agree, but that's ok. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 06:35:09PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: The problem is that the existing wire protocols do not have a provision for doing an 'are you ready' or 'I am not ready' exchange and they are not designed to store page tables

Re: [PATCH 2/4] fib_trie: improve output format for /proc/net/fib_trie

2008-02-12 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:50:44 -0800 Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make output format prettier (more tree like). local: --- 0.0.0.0/0 |--- 10.111.111.0/24 | +-- 10.111.111.0/32 link broadcast | |--- 10.111.111.254/31 | | +--

Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum

2008-02-12 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Paul Jackson wrote: == If each time I look at some 'flags' field, I have to think of it as a couple of things glued together that I will have to pick apart to use, that's more mental work than seeing those two things explicit and separate, through most of the mempolicy.c

Re: [patch] sparc: fix build

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:57:39 + Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 06:46:54PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -20,9 +20,6 @@

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 18:35 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote: Yes, this is exactly the feature I'm looking for. It would allow the downstream users of a rebased tree to rebase themselves correctly. All the information about the rebase is in

[PATCH] dm-raid1 breakage on 64bit

2008-02-12 Thread Al Viro
test_and_set_bit() on address of uint32_t is a Bad Idea(tm)... Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c b/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c index edc057f..2928ef2 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ enum dm_raid1_error {

Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-12 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
Greetings all, On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 17:05 +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 1:11 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have always observed the case with LIO SE/iSCSI target mode ... Hello Nicholas, Are you sure that the LIO-SE kernel module source code is

[PATCH] drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c breakage

2008-02-12 Thread Al Viro
readl(sock + ...) that should've been readl(sock-addr + ...) Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c b/drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c index f55b71a..4fb2421 100644 --- a/drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c +++ b/drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c @@

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:31:10PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: The importance of merging (rather, not screwing up history in general) becomes really obvious when things go tits-up. Then they go tits-up *without* screwing up the history of the trees that were hopefully tested individually.

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-12 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Paul Jackson wrote: I've redone my patchset based on the feedback that I've received Will you be sending that along soon? I was just getting into my review of this patchset, and I suppose it would be better to review the latest and greatest. Lee had some questions

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
[mangled CC list trimmed] On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:56:26PM -0500, Patrick Geoffray wrote: Jason Gunthorpe wrote: I don't know much about Quadrics, but I would be hesitant to lump it in too much with these RDMA semantics. Christian's comments sound like they operate closer to what you

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-02-12 Thread Pete MacKay
This patch series adds support for the touchscreen controllers provided by Wolfson Microelectronics WM97xx series chips in both polled and streaming modes. We're using the wm9712 codec with the sound/soc/pxa code configured in and came across this build error: In file included from

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-12 Thread Patrick Geoffray
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: [mangled CC list trimmed] Thanks, noticed that afterwards. This wasn't ment as a slight against Quadrics, only to point out that the specific wire protcols used by IB and iwarp are what cause this limitation, it would be easy to imagine that Quadrics has some additional

Re: 2.6.24-sha1: RIP [ffffffff802596c8] iov_iter_advance+0x38/0x70

2008-02-12 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 11:17, Nick Piggin wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008 09:27, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: It's a trivial dumb module which does nothing but loads and unloads. I redid ftest03 later without any suspicious activity and it oopsed the same way. Ah crap. Hmm, maybe I

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Paul Mundt
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:00:16PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 18:35 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote: Yes, this is exactly the feature I'm looking for. It would allow the downstream users of a rebased tree to rebase

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-12 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: Adds another member to struct mempolicy, nodemask_t user_nodemask that stores the the nodemask that the user passed when he or she created the mempolicy via set_mempolicy() or mbind(). When using MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES, which is

Re: [git pull for -mm] CPU isolation extensions (updated2)

2008-02-12 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 14:32, Max Krasnyansky wrote: David Miller wrote: From: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:41:21 +1100 stop machine is used for more than just module loading and unloading. I don't think you can just disable it. Right, in particular

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:31 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote: Right at the moment, I maintain a branch and a branch-base and simply cherry pick the commits between the two to do the right thing when I know my volatile base has changed. It would

Re: [git pull for -mm] CPU isolation extensions (updated2)

2008-02-12 Thread Max Krasnyansky
Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 20:10 -0800, Max Krasnyansky wrote: Andrew, looks like Linus decided not to pull this stuff. Can we please put it into -mm then. My tree is here git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maxk/cpuisol-2.6.git Please use 'master' branch (or

Re: [PATCH] drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c breakage

2008-02-12 Thread Alex Dubov
--- Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: readl(sock + ...) that should've been readl(sock-addr + ...) Thanks. It's a first member in struct, so the problem was just sitting there unnoticed. Be a

Re: [-mm PATCH] register_memory/unregister_memory clean ups

2008-02-12 Thread Yasunori Goto
Thanks Badari-san. I understand what was occured. :-) On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 13:56 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: + /* +* Its ugly, but this is the best I can do - HELP !! +* We don't know where the allocations for section memmap and usemap +* came from. If they are

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-12 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: Of course, if you didn't even want to save the old branch, just skip the first step. If you have reflogs enabled (and git does that by default in any half-way recent version), you can always find it again, even without having to do git fsck

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